Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 63
It must be to some good calling--and then he would be out of the house."
Who acts: master, George · What happens: be · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, George), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 calling | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 calling | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 calling | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 calling | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 calling | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 calling | amod |
| 7 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 house | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 house | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 house | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 house | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 house | cop |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 calling | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 calling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | master | to some good calling and the house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | would | George | the house | then | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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